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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 25, 2014 | Bruun Rasmussen | Bredgade | Internationale malerier, antikviteter og moderne kunst | 732 | $****** - ****** | Catch me a Butterfly |
paintings
102 x 153 cm (40.16 x 60.24 in)
acrylic on canvas
Signed and dated on the reverse
Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg, Denmark. Acquired here by the present owner in 1984. The recurring focal point in Walasse Ting's paintings from the late 1970s is the interaction between the woman and the flowers. Ting's late motif universe is easily recognisable, magical, almost. It is inspired by women, the beautiful geishas of his childhood in Shanghai, flowers and parrots, motifs which are all seen as symbols of female beauty. The women are often naked, the space indefinable, and the flowers fill the canvas with their abundant bloom. All of this in an attempt to show the delicacy of the woman, the beauty of life and the senses at play on the canvas. The palette is exclusively acrylics, but processed in so fragile and light a way that the eye might be tempted to believe that it is watercolor in places. The works up for auction are clear examples of Ting's picturesque universe. It is a clear examples of the artist's love of women and their beauty. The woman is surrounded by flowers (almost shrouded in them) and the beholder is left in a dream universe in which the beauty of the woman overwhelms the surrounding space. The style is unique, but traces of the American abstract expressionists cannot be denied.
